Last week, the news of Michael Jackson’s death nearly broke the Internet, as many Web sites reporting the news experienced slowdown and breakdown. Somewhere in the traffic (and combined with the news of Farrah Fawcett’s passing), a handful of other fake deaths snuck up on unsuspecting celebrities.The most notable was the rumor that actor Jeff Goldblum had suffered a fatal fall in New Zealand (Goldblum is alive and well). There were also rumors that Harrison Ford had died (he remains upright as well). Both were based on spurious news reports that were linked and Tweeted numerous times.
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